TEXT IV - Greenpeace campaign reduces

Amazon deforestation by 86%

STUDY GUIDE (4 bimestre) corrigido e
comentado. Greenpeace is a non-governmental
environmental organisation founded in 1971 with
READ THE TEXTS THAT FOLLOW TO ANSWER THE the goal of defending the natural world and
QUESTIONS FROM 1 TO 5. promoting peace by investigating, exposing and
confronting environmental abuse, and
championing environmentally responsible
TEXT I - Amazon rainforest solutions.

The Amazon forest,which covers
approximately 2.7 million square miles (7 million
sq km), is the worlds largest tropical forest.
Located mainly in Brazil, the Amazon rain forest
accounts for more than 20 percent of all the
worlds tropical forests. Known in Brazil as the
selva, the rainforest is a vast storehouse of
biological diversity,filled with plants and animals
both familiar and exotic.
TEXT II - Deforestation in the
Amazon,2004-2014 (square kilometers)
Since the turn of the century the situation in
the Brazilian Amazon was a cause for great
concern, with the second highest rate of annual
deforestation on record. To address the problem,
Greenpeace proposed a moratorium* on the
purchase of soy that came from deforested areas,
was associated with slave labour or encroached on
indigenous lands.
*moratorium : A moratria da soja foi um acordo voluntrio
promovido por aes diretas de ONGs (como a Greenpeace),
liderado por indstrias, empresas consumidoras e o governo, o
que garantiu que comerciantes fossem proibidos de comprar
soja cultivada na Amaznia em terras desmatadas aps 2006.

1- Based on texts II and IV, judge the

following items, and then choose the
correct alternative.

1. ( T ) the soybean moratorium reveals about

a rise in the Brazilian economy and how it has
almost become the new vector of destruction in
the Amazon.

2. ( F ) The graph ( text II) shows that the rate

of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
started to decrease/fell in 2004.
TEXT III
3. ( T ) The graph ( text II) shows that there
Save the Amazon!
was a great decline between 2008 and 2009.

Deforestation of tropical rain forests 4. ( T ) The soybean moratorium has become

an example of how industry, governments,
contributes to climate change. Brazil loses 4.3 consumers and non-governmental
million (ha) of tropical forests environmental organisation can together find
solutions to environmental problems . The
annually.Deforestation is by far the biggest
soybean moratorium also influenced changes in
problem in the Amazon.Huge reas of rainforest the country's public policies and formed the
basis for other forest protection agreements.
are destroyed by clearing for agriculture, ilegal or
unsustainable logging for timber, and for industrial
or urban development.Industrial agricultural Comentrio do item 2 : de acordo com o grfico,
production,especially soy farms, has also been an o ano de 2004 foi o ano com o maior ndice de
desmatamento na floresta amaznica.
importante driver of deforestation since the early
1990s.
Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas os itens 1,2 e 3 so corretos.
b) Apenas os itens 2 e 4 so incorretos.
c) Apenas os itens 3 e 4 so incorretos.
d) Apenas os itens 1,3 e 4 so corretos.
e) Todos os itens so corretos.
2. Based on texts II and III, judge the following
items, and then choose the correct alternative.
1. ( T ) Tropical forests are disappearing because
of human intervention.
2. ( F ) Deforestation of tropical rain forests
doesnt contribute to global warming.
3. ( F ) Tropical rain forests release great
amounts of carbon dioxide ( CO2 ).
4.( T ) If one foot matches to 30 centimeters
(average), so, a tree with 150 feet can grow up
45 meters in height.
(Nota : 1 FOOT = 30 cm / 100cm = 1 metro)
Comentrio do item 2 : A palavra que torna o
item falso doesnt, j que o desmatamento declara sobre as causas e consequncias do
das florestas tropicais contribui para o
aquecimento global.
Comentrio do item 3 : As palavras que tornam
o item falso so carbon dioxide. Na verdade,
as florestas tropicais liberam (release) grande
quantidade de oxignio e absorvem gs carbnico.
Comentrio do item 4 : A altura de uma rvore
mede-se em quantidade de ps que ela possui. O
item afirma que Se 1 p corresponde a 30cm
(em mdia), logo ,uma rvore com 150 ps pode
crescer (grow up) 45 metros em altura. Para se
chegar concluso de que o item verdadeiro,
basta realizar o seguinte clculo : 30cm ( equivale
a 1 p) X 150cm ( quantidade de ps ) = 4.500
centmetros. Se dividirmos 4.500 centmetros por
100cm , teremos o equivalente a 45 metros.
Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas o item 3 incorreto.
b) Apenas os itens 3 e 4 so incorretos.
c) Apenas os itens 2 e 3 so incorretos.
d) Apenas os itens 1, 2 e 4 so incorretos.
e) Apenas o item 4 correto.
3. Based on ideas and linguistic structure
from the text I and III , judge the
items that follow . And then, choose the
correct sequence.
1. ( F ) The text I declares only about the
causes and consequences of deforestation .
2. ( T ) In the sentence Industrial agricultural
production,especially soy farms, has also been an
importante driver of deforestation since the early
1990s., there isnt an agent in the passive
voice.
3. ( F ) Both texts I and III declare about the
of causes and consequences of deforestation in
Amazon.
4. ( T ) We usually omit the agent in the passive
voice when it is not important or when it refers to
people,humans.
Comentrio do item 1 : O texto I declara
apenas sobre a importncia da floresta
amaznica, e no sobre as causas e
consequncias do desmatamento.
Comentrio do item 3 : Somente o texto III
desmatamento na Amaznia.
Escolha a alternativa correta :
a) Apenas os itens 1 e 4 so incorretos.
b) Apenas os itens 2 e 4 so corretos.
c) Apenas os item 3 correto.
d) Apenas os item 1 incorreto.
e) Todos os itens so corretos.
4. Based on texts I and II, it cannot be
inferred that :
a) ( ) According to the graph, the least
rates of deforestation in the Amazon
occured after 2009, compared to before
years.
b) ( X ) The graph illustrates that
deforestation in the Amazon was caused by
a natural disaster .
c) ( ) Rainforests are healthy to the
environment.
 d) ( ) Its more likely that the variety of
many plants may be reduced in the period Observao importante : Assista aos
from 2000 to 2008 compared to the period vdeos Moratria da soja forest
between 2009 and 2014.
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soja , ambos postados neste blog no dia
16 de novembro. Assistir a esses vdeos
Comentrio do item b : As palavras que no apenas ir ajudar os alunos a
tornam o item falso so as palavras
compreenderem melhor os textos
natural disaster(desastre naturai). O item
afirma que o grfico ilustra que o abordados no estudo dirigido e na prova
desmatamento na Amaznia foi causado bimestral do dia 28/11 , mas tambm ir
por um desastre natural. Na verdade, o contribuir para o aumento de
desmatamento causado pela interveno conhecimento do aluno a respeito da
humana. O item 1 da questo 2 j afirma
realidade do desmatamento na floresta
isso.
amaznica, cujo assunto costuma ser
5. A alternativa correta que expressa a cobrado em provas de vestibulares e
voz passiva da frase Greenpeace redaes dissertativas em lngua
proposed a moratorium on the purchase portuguesa.
of soy (text IV), :

a) A moratorium on purchase of soy were

proposed by Greenpeace.

b) A moratorium on purchase of soy has

been proposed by Greenpeace.

c) A moratorium on purchase of soy was

proposed by Greenpeace.

d) A moratorium on purchase of soy was

being proposed by Greenpeace.

e) A moratorium on purchase of soy were

been proposed by Greenpeace.

Comentrio :

A frase Greenpeace proposed a moratorium on

the purchase of soy ( Greenpeace props uma
moratria da soja ) foi escrita na voz ativa. Ao
transformar esta frase para a voz passiva
importante observar que : O objeto da voz ativa =
uma moratria da soja torna-se o sujeito
paciente na voz passiva. Observe tambm que o
sujeito da voz ativa = Greenpeace tornar-se- o
agente da passiva na voz passiva. Por fim, note
que o verbo to be na voz passiva deve ser escrito
no mesmo tempo do verbo principal da voz ativa.
No exemplo da frase , o verbo principal foi escrito
no passado proposed = props.